I still find a surprising number of these old log structures; very few retain the original wraparound roof and when they do they have almost always suffered a loss of the tin, like this one.
Log Corn Crib, Evans County
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Brian, that is one of the things that I admire about farmers—they are adaptive and creative. If it works for them, that is what they need and want.
Good one .We’re the wrap around roofs added later to change the usage of the building to another purpose ?
Phil, I am wondering if this was actually a smokehouse. It is hard to judge over the Internet the size of the structure. It appears more like an old tobacco barn that has at some point been altered to serve another useful farm purpose. I know that many such log buildings were built as corn cribs. Shelters were built there to accommodate livestock, storage of farm plows, etc. Maybe someone who actually was connected to this log facility will explain its original use
Jesse…thank goodness you’ve been paying attention today. I loaded a lot of images in the past two days and with all sorts of computer maladies I’ve transposed some of my files. I, too, wonder about these structures sometimes. They do look like “cut-down” tobacco barns. I know of one for sure that looks like this but is shorter than the average tobacco barn, yet it still has the oven attached, so I know that’s what it must have been. It goes to show that South Georgia’s farmers and rural folk were very wise at converting places to whatever needs they had.